[MPlayer-users] "buggy sound card driver"

[Corey Hickey]

Diego Zuccato wrote:
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> Well, jumpy video isn't too bad... My ALI 5451 (OSS emulation layer on
> Alsa 0.5.12) sometimes "freezes" the whole system... It just happens
> with mplayer (xmms sometimes says "couldn't open audio device" and
> sometimes mpg123 takes about 10-15 minutes to start a song, but they
> don't interfere with other processes...).
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I suppose this is a bit offtopic, but why don't you use ALSA 0.9.0rc5?

-Corey